What are you asking, exactly? It's pretty well accepted that parts of Europe are socialist. France, while it has been moving away from socialism in some ways, was pretty socialist at the time of this story.
State-owned companies? Usual in much of Europe, but hardly sufficient for "socialism"?
Distributive taxation? Preferable treatment of unions in labor disputes?
You need to define your terms otherwise it just becomes a word.
There are other countries in Europe that have or have had (and moved on from) socialist governments in recent history.